Messages in this thread | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:44:46 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:40, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > I don't see the need for a development kernel, and it is desirable to be > > able to run kernel.org kernels. > > Problem is, kernel.org 'release' kernels are quite buggy. For example 2.6.9 > has a long list of bugs: > > - superio parports don't work > - TCP networking using TSO gives memory allocation failures > - s390 has a serious security bug (sacf) > - ppp hangup is broken with some peers > - exec leaks POSIX timer memory and loses signals > - auditing can deadlock > - O_DIRECT and mmap IO can't be used together > - procfs shows the wrong parent PID in some cases > - i8042 fails to initialize with some boards using legacy USB > - kswapd still goes into a frenzy now and then > > Sure, the next release will (may?) fix these bugs, but it will definitely > add a whole set of new ones.
To my mind this just points out the need for a bug fix branch. e.g. a branch containing just bug/security fixes against the current stable kernel. It might also be worth keeping the branch active for the n-1 stable kernel too.
Ed
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